A picnic with wine and cheese in the park. What could be more romantic for a first date? Usually, something like this would be a pretty safe option for a date with someone that you don’t really know that well.
It’s simple, and you don’t have to worry about booking a reservation at a fancy restaurant in town.
But when he decides to secretly have this picnic in front of his ex-wife’s house without informing you, things turn very uncomfortable very quickly.
This is what happened to TikToker Chelsea Larkin, @chelslark66, who went on a first date after getting out of her long-term relationship.
“The first date that I went on when I became single was with a guy I met on OkCupid,” she said.
To her, it all seemed like it had potential at first glance. They each had very similar lifestyles prior to their current situation.
“He was newly single too,” she said. “And we’d both been married, so I meet him for a date in a park.”
Even though it looked like he set up a nice picnic for them in the park, she eventually came to realize that he had other plans for what they were going to do on this date.
TikTok; pictured above is Chelsea in her video
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“He said ‘let’s move the picnic to this area of the park,’ so I say ‘ok,'” Chelsea said as though she thought it was a bizarre thing to ask. “I help him pick up the blanket and like the wine and all the stuff he brought.”
What’s even weirder is that they didn’t move to a more remote part of the park. Or even a part that had more nature to enjoy. He oddly chooses a spot in what sounds like a small neighborhood.
“We move like in front of a bunch of houses,” she said. “And as he’s talking to me, he’s just staring at one house.”
Chelsea gave a laugh at how bizarre the memory was– and their date proceeds to get even more bizarre than it already was.
“Then this girl comes out of the house after like 20 minutes.”
Though it may seem improbable to the outside viewer, her date didn’t just choose this spot at random, and the girl coming out of the house wasn’t a coincidence.
She came out to address Chelsea’s date, who turned out to be her ex-husband–a minor detail that he neglected to tell Chelsea about.
“She was like, ‘Robert! What are you doing here?'” Chelsea explained.
He had a full motive the entire time for going on this date. He didn’t want any kind of new relationship with Chelsea.
He was using an online date to get in touch with his ex-wife. While he’s supposed to be on a first date with Chelsea, he’s admitting to still being hung up on his old relationship: he even said “I love you” to his ex-wife.
“He said, ‘I love you, and this is the only way to get your attention,” she told her viewers.
Just to try to convey the level of uncomfortableness that Chelsea felt in this situation, she said that she “just sat there drinking wine on the blanket” while her date and his ex-wife really reunited.
“They started kissing,” she said. “And then they sat on the blanket that I was also on.”
That was a hard no for Chelsea after that experience, and it was not a great first date after a long relationship. But she didn’t leave unsatisfied.
She made sure to grab the cheese from the picnic before she got up to leave. While she may not have gotten a relationship from that experience, she still got something great: cheese.
Be sure to watch the original video on TikTok here.
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